Belkin, the California based manufacturer of iPod and iPhone accessories, has revealed two new accessories designed for Apple's Lightning connector, the first official 3rd-party accessories for the new port, points out MacRumors. The two Lightning connector accessories include the Belkin Car Charger and a Belkin Charge + Sync Dock. The accessories cost $29.99 each, with pre-orders shipping as early as November...
A new report by Guardian claims that Google employees that are working on the dedicated Google Maps app for iOS, are suspecting that Apple will not approve it in the App Store (via CNET). However, if Apple does reject the Google Maps app on grounds that it is by a competitor, approval of other maps apps currently...
Previously, Apple’s largest manufacturing partner Foxconn Electronics was reported to be buying an 11% stake in Sharp and that it will be investing up to $1B to boost display panels production. However, a new IDG report is pointing out that since Sharp has shown doubts about the company's ability to continue operating, its stock price continues to fall. To rescue the...
Time magazine used Instagram to cover the effects of Hurricane Sandy and found out that the results were pretty impressive. An article by Forbes details why one of the world's leading news magazine turned to an iPhone app to cover this historic natural disaster. The report details how Kira Pollack, Time’s director of photography, rounded up five photographers from the region...
The Dev-Team front man @MuscleNerd has tweeted a screenshot of his iPad Mini showing that he has successfully gained root access to the device, pretty much confirming the device is jailbreakable. As usual, he didn't add any more information to his tweet. Here's what the jailbreak master tweeted: https://twitter.com/MuscleNerd/status/264795310285520896 While he didn't elaborate as to what he...
Popular teardown analysis website iSuppli has just completed its report regarding the Apple iPad Mini teardown and according to them, the base model for Apple's smaller tablet i.e a Wi-Fi-only 16 gigabyte iPad Mini that retails for $329, costs at least $188 to build (via AllThingsD). The reports claims that 32GB or 64GB additional memory adds only incremental cost i.e $31...
Yesterday, Rovio published another one of those Angry Birds Star Wars teaser trailers featuring Han Solo & Chewie. Previously, we've seen gameplay trailers showing characters like Luke and Leia and R2-D2 and C-3PO. Now, another exclusive gameplay trailer for the upcoming Angry Birds Star Wars game has been published that features Obi Wan & Darth Vader, the two core characters from Star Wars franchise....
The new 4th generation iPad features an A6X SoC which according to Apple, provides 2x improvement in GPU performance over the previous generation A5X processor. AnandTech shares its first GPU performance results for the new A6X, which also features a new GPU core. While the new SoC retains the same memory interface as the A5X, it integrates two of Apple's...
When iPhone 5 was launched, Jimmy Kimmel played a hilarious prank, showing the public an iPhone 4S but telling them it was an iPhone 5. This time, Kimmel takes up the iPad Mini, as the new device officially hit the stores today (via TNW). See what Jimmy has to say in the following video:
Apple has just released iOS 6.0.1 to the public, one day ahead of the official iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad global launch. The update introduces a handful of improvements and bug fixes including keyboard screen glitch and camera flash Issues among others. The 6.0.1 update is available both via iTunes as well as OTA. However iPhone 5...
So you've seen various Angry Birds Star Wars teaser trailers including the one showing Luke and Leia gameplay and another one with R2-D2 and C-3PO. Today, another one of Rovio's exclusive gameplay trailers for its upcoming Angry Birds Star Wars game have been published on the web and this time, it features Han Solo & Chewie. Here's what Rovio says:...
Though I'm not a big fan of Microsoft's latest Windows Phone OS offering, I do kinda like the concept of Live tiles a.k.a the Metro UI. If you add these Live tiles to the iOS along with some Android widgets, an interesting concept by visual and user interface designer Max Rudberg shows you exactly what will happen (via...
